One of the most respected American scholarly authority on Islam, John L. Esposito, will visit the University of Kentucky Wednesday to discuss “The Future of Islam: Assessing the Elements of Reform, Revival, and Fundamentalism in the Muslim World.” The community is invited to attend his presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Singletary Center Recital Hall.
A briefing and geopolitical account by a former Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. Gwen Schaefer, a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky, was deployed to Ukraine this year when Corps personnel were directed to leave the country as the political situation deteriorated. The developments over the summer after she left the county will also be adressed. Schaefer will be starting a new Peace Corps mission to Macedonia in September.
This year's Passport to the World will engage the campus community in crucial global conversations through public lectures, cultural events, coursework and travel opportunities.
Students from a variety of departments in the College of Arts & Sciences were recently named Chellgren Fellows.
In his talk, Sabar will weave the remarkable story of the Kurdish Jews and their dying Aramaic tongue with the moving tale of how a consumate Californai kid came to write a book about his family's past in Iraqi Kurdistan. The book, "My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, one of the highest honors in American letters.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program and the Department of History
“Political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Politics”
7:00 pm W.T. Young Auditorium
Associate Professor of Islamic Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Scholar of Islamic Law and Islamist/Reformist Thought
Author of the book: Muslim Reformists, Female Citizenship and the Public Accommodation of Islam in Liberal Democracy
Articles: “Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist” and “Judicial Institutions, the Legitimacy of the Islamic State Law and Democratic Transition in Egypt”
This lecture will examine American efforts to further a "peace process" that has in fact exacerbated the conflict, and will explore how the US could contribute to a just resolution of the Palestine issue.
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and chair of the Department of History at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Asociation, was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the 1991-1993 Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, and is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Khalidi is the author of seven books: Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East; Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East; The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East; Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War; and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914.
